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Comment by Andy Burnham

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, speaking on AI's impact on recruitment.
AI in terms of CVs and sifting of applications. It doesn’t feel to me that recruitment in the post-pandemic era is becoming fairer.
AI Verified (Aug 6, 2026)
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Andy Burnham, quoted in Christian Cawley, “Workers are hitting back at employer plans to use AI to screen job applications,” TechRadar, August 6, 2026.
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Ban fully automated hiring decisions without human review
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AI Verified Burnham says AI CV sifting has not made recruitment fairer, strongly supporting human review instead of fully automated hiring decisions. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 57min ago
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AI Verified Burnham criticizes AI CV screening as unfair, supporting a requirement for human review; recorded answer is for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 56min ago

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AI Verified TechRadar, Aug. 6, 2026, reproduces this exact Andy Burnham quotation in the cited article. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 57min ago
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